| A record southeastern snowfall in the absence of a rapidly deepening extratropical cyclone - :6667 | National Weather Service (NWS)

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"The intent of this paper is not to provide a detailed meteorological analysis, but instead to demonstrate that major winter storms in the western Carolinas and north east Georgia can occur in the absence of a rapidly deepening surface cyclone"--Introduction.

"The purpose of this paper is to document this event as completely as possible, highlighting the anomalous nature of this storm. Surface observations, radar imagery and other real time tools were used to track the system and associated damaging winds...

Neutral ENSO conditions at the beginning of 2002 gave way to a strengthening El Niño episode during boreal summer. Weather patterns in many areas of the world reflected the warm phase conditions. The average global temperature in 2002 was 0.45°C ab...